Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	December 8, 2006–December 9, 2006
Competitors	17 from 13 nations
Medalists
Maryam Yusuf Jamal   Bahrain   Viktoriya Yalovtseva   Kazakhstan   Zamira Amirova   Uzbekistan

Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m s'chase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's 800 metres competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held on 8 and 9 December 2006 at the Khalifa International Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date	Time	Event
Friday, 8 December 2006	16:05	1st round
Saturday, 9 December 2006	16:30	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian records were as follows.

World Record	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	1:53.28	Munich, West Germany	26 July 1983
Asian Record	Liu Dong (CHN)	1:55.54	Beijing, China	9 September 1993
Games Record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	1:59.85	Hiroshima, Japan	12 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish

1st round

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	2:08.62	Q
2	Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE)	2:08.64	Q
3	Miho Sugimori (JPN)	2:08.69	q
4	Anna Kliushkina (KGZ)	2:09.31
5	Sana Abu-Bakheet (PLE)	2:31.50
6	Danah Al-Nasrallah (KUW)	2:40.60

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:08.87	Q
2	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:10.16	Q
3	Trương Thanh Hằng (VIE)	2:10.95
4	Leila Ebrahimi (IRI)	2:17.16
—	Tatyana Borisova (KGZ)	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ)	2:04.70	Q
2	Zamira Amirova (UZB)	2:06.57	Q
3	Liu Qing (CHN)	2:07.34	q
4	Bushra Parveen (PAK)	2:15.17
5	Mina Pourseifi (IRI)	2:18.35
6	Leong Ka Man (MAC)	2:26.51

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:01.79
	Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ)	2:03.19
	Zamira Amirova (UZB)	2:03.56
4	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:03.76
5	Miho Sugimori (JPN)	2:05.28
6	Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE)	2:07.75
7	Liu Qing (CHN)	2:09.39
DQ	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	2:03.16

• Santhi Soundarajan of India originally won the silver medal, However, she underwent a sex test shortly afterwards, and the results indicated that she "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman".^[1] Soon after the results of the sex test came out, she was stripped of her silver medal.^[2]

References

1. "Indian athlete fails gender test". BBC News. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
2. "Indian silver medalist female runner at Asian Games fails gender test". International Herald Tribune. 18 December 2006.

• Results – 1st Round Heat 1
• Results – 1st Round Heat 2
• Results – 1st Round Heat 3
• Results – Final